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Examples
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Maybe the used it to fund robocalls surreptiously!
Wardrobe Mysteries Linger - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Several riding companions and I in a van in rural Uganda in 1969 came very close to being beaten senseless because some idiot with white skin and a cartoonish safari oufit "surreptiously" took a picture of locals shopping in a village market.
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Can't help myself -- as a newspaper editor you take photos "surreptiously"?
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If it is rude and disrespectful to openly take pictures of individuals or small groups inclined to take offense at that action for any reason, it is even worse to try to take these pictures "surreptiously".
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Asserting its ownership over gas from KG-D6 fields, the government said that the Mukesh and Anil Ambani groups were "surreptiously" appropriating national resources and treating it as their personal and family property.
The Economic Times 2009
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What a brilliant idea – so much better than a business card – and a sneaky way to get your work across by surreptiously sneaking into a library and putting them in books.
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The video was surreptiously taped by James O'Keefe, a conservative activist known for his undercover filming.
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Flores's campaign manager, Matt Mackowiak, downplayed the episode, accusing Dems of surreptiously recording the exchange.
Key GOP House candidate declines to support Boehner for speaker 2010
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There's also a sharing feature between E6s that might allow, say, two students with the devices to surreptiously message one another across a classroom.
CES 2010: First impressions of Samsung's first e-book reader 2010
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There's also a sharing feature between E6s that might allow, say, two students with the devices to surreptiously message one another across a classroom.
CES 2010: First impressions of Samsung's first e-book reader 2010
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